Engineering Manager - Security Squad

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.

By joining our Corporate Services department, you will be working alongside talented individuals grouped in small agile teams that each have strong ownership on their stack and goals.

Corporate Services is composed of six teams which “Provide tools, services, and expertise that enable BlaBlaCar internal teams to fulfill their mission with efficiency, productivity, and comfort.”.

The Security Team has three main objectives, driving the security team roadmap:

Reduce BlaBlaCar risk exposure by defining and implementing a strategy to identify, report and tackle the most critical risks

Implement a shift-left strategy and autonomy within the teams via training, guidelines and tooling

Detect, investigate and respond to security incidents

By design, the role requires a global vision of BBC perimeter, risks and regulation. You will have to ensure that the security practices and security frameworks are well implemented across our various business lines or locations. To accomplish the security mission, some of the processes / framework are directly operated by the security team, while others are delegated within the organization.

To fulfill the mission, you will be working with several stakeholders :

The Legal team,especially the DPO team, as a daily partner

The IT Ops team to deploy security tools and best practices to all employees and contractors

The Product & Engineering teams, working with each service and infrastructure teams to ensure our product and our user's data are secure and protected.

Your Responsibilities

In cooperation with your manager, CISO & Head of corporate Services, and your team:

Plan and implement comprehensive risk-driven security strategies

Manage the security team (4 Individual Contributors) and the associated cost center (security tools contract management and financial follow up)

Ensure a strong coordination with department managers to determine security needs and ensure security strategy is well understood and implemented

Ensure processes within the company and with external stakeholders are robust and properly followed

Define a middle to long-term Security strategy which would fit with BBC values. A key aspect would be to preserve secure processes within an international context

Ensure compliance with company policies and security industry regulations or recommendations

Your Qualifications

Experience in risk management, auditing internal processes and tools

Proven track record of team management and leadership skills

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to explain complex security subjects to non-technical people

Global and broad knowledge in security on main attacks vectors and associated defense strategies

Knowledge on security/privacy regulations and standards (GDPR, PCI DSS,…)

Relevant experience in a company operating large-scale production systems and web services / relevant experience in Security Audits for consulting firms

Optional : Advanced ability to coordinate responses to security breaches and threats

Technical stack

Security tooling : SentinelOne, Splunk, OneLogin, Wiz, Datadome, Sysdig

IT environment: Windows, MacOS and Chromebook with a BeyondCorp- inspired vision

Core Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Istio

Languages: Go for Infra/Tooling, Java and PHP for backend services. Go for the custom security tooling.

GitOps/Delivery: GitHub, Terraform, Flux, Helm, Jenkins

Datastores: MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka

Observability: Datadog, Grafana

What we have to offer

Hybrid position : 2 days at the office per week

50% healthcare coverage (Alan)

4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves

Financial support for home office equipment

Minimum 25 days holiday per year

Local meal plan policy (Swile card)

50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides

Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs

Employee Stock ownership plan

Regular team building events

1 day off per year to test our product

Hiring process

45-min interview with Chloé FRIESS, Talent Acquisition Manager - career path, growth mindset

60-min interview with Jérémy COURTIAL, Senior Security Engineer - Security knowledge, risk management, people management, teamwork - based on Case Study

60-min interview with Camille MARSIGNY,CISO & Head of corporate Services - strategic thinking, delivery & people management, and teamwork - based on Case Study

30-min skip-level with Nicolas SALVY, CTO - culture fit and career aspirations

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.